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Alicia Brown

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  • Data and Analytics Democratizer
  • Metadata Standards and Data Governance Advocate
  • Agile and Design Thinking Practitioner

Experience

Technical Solution Architect

Socrata / Tyler Tech - Data and Insights Division

Seattle, WA

present - 2018

  • Partner with public sector agencies and governments to share their data within their organization and community for informed decision-making and transparency
  • Empower the discovery of insights in data by teams via Data Science and Business Intelligence Tools and Programming Languages (Power BI, Tableau, R, Python, SQL, Excel, Power Query)
  • Provide guidance on establishing strong data programs to ensure the integrity, availability and accessibility of data

Senior Data Analyst

Socrata - Global Services

Seattle, WA

2018 - 2015

  • Consulted on best practices on Data Governance, Metadata, Standards and Quality
  • Developed custom ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) for multiple client tools and source systems
  • Enabled the automation of data retrieval from external APIs for tracking performance across common indicators and benchmarking against peers

Technical Project Manager

H.D. Vest Financial Services / Wells Fargo Advisors

Seattle, WA

2013 - 2010

  • Led migration of applications, data and files from Wells Fargo servers to new H.D. Vest environment
  • Worked closely with cross functional teams across the organization to ensure successful execution of change requests and migration events
  • Led sustainability team to improve robustness of portal web applications

Senior Web Developer

H.D. Vest Financial Services / Wells Fargo Advisors

Dallas, TX

2010 - 2001

  • Led portal team integration project with Wachovia platform (data migration, SSO, login, and application integration)
  • Full stack developer of web applications using C#, VB.net, VBScript, SQL for Advisor and Client sites

Webmaster

H.D. Vest Financial Services

Dallas, TX

2001 - 2000

  • Supported free online tax platform
  • Managed content on marketing and corporate websites

Projects

California State Auditor’s Local Government High-Risk Dashboard

highriskcities.auditor.ca.gov

Sacramento, CA

2019

Dashboard to identify cities that could be facing fiscal challenges by assessing their levels of risk using various financial indicators.

Pierce County Performance Dashboard

open.piercecountywa.gov

Pierce County, WA

2018

Partnered with departments to identify measurable data to use for analysis of performance, develop sustainable methods for publishing data and retrieving common indicators from census and bls apis.

Oakland Equity Indicators

data.oaklandnet.com/stories/s/brb2-j4ad

Oakland, CA

2018

Created interactive report featuring 72 indicators across six themes: Economy, Education, Public Health, Housing, Public Safety and Neighborhood and Civic Life to score how equitable Oakland is between groups with the highest and lowest values for a given indicator.

Neighborhood Data for Social Change Platform

ladata.myneighborhooddata.org

Los Angeles, CA

2017

Worked with USC Sol Price Center for Social Change team to provide data and spatial assets for the to engage community and provide necessary data for researches and local non-profits.

Michigan Financial & School Dashboards

micommunityfinancials.michigan.gov

Lansing, MI

2016

Worked with Michigan Department of Treasury / Schools to monitor financial and enrollment data across localities and educational entities.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, WA

Certified Scrum Master (CSM®)

Scrum Alliance

Seattle, WA

BI - Techniques for Decision Making

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

FME Certified Professional

Safe Software

Vancouver, BC

Education

Texas Christian University

Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

Fort Worth, TX

Texas A&M University

Bachelors of Arts - Anthropology

College Station, TX